NeuroPrion
NeuroPrion has been initially created in 2004 as an European network of excellence funded by the European Union and dedicated to research on prion diseases. It included 52 research institutes in 20 different countries and federated over 120 individual research groups representing more than 90% of prion public research teams in Europe and more than 50% worldwide.
At the end of the Network, NeuroPrion was continued as a non-profit Association and has been opened to the worldwide community of prion researchers. More than 1,000 scientists joined the NeuroPrion Association since its creation.
The primary objectives of NeuroPrion are to integrate the efforts of the main European prion research teams in order to reduce the fragmentation and/or duplication of research and to establish a lasting approach that will protect and improve human and animal health. NeuroPrion co-organizes every year since 2004 the main Prion congress, which gathers 300 to 900 scientists.
About prions
Prions are the first known transmissible agents that are not bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, and are considered as pure proteins. These transmissible agents, which were initially thought to be “unconventional viruses” are now considered by most scientists to be devoid of genomic information (nucleic acids).
Prions are responsible for degenerative brain diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad cow disease) in cattle, Scrapie in sheep and goats and Chronic Wasting Disease in cervids.
Prion conferences
Prion 2018
May 22-25, 2018
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Prion 2017
May 23-26, 2017
Edinburgh, Scotland
Prion 2016
May 10-13, 2016
Tokyo, Japan
Prion 2015
May 26-29, 2015
Fort Collins, USA
Prion 2014
May 27-30, 2014
Trieste, Italy
Prion 2013
May 26-29, 2013
Banff, Alberta
Prion 2012
May 9–12, 2012
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prion 2011
May 16-19, 2011
Montreal, Quebec
Prion 2010
September 8-11, 2010
Salzburg, Austria
Prion 2009
September 23-25, 2009
Porto Caras Halkidiki, Greece
Prion 2008
October 8-10, 2008
Madrid, Spain
Prion 2007
September 26-28, 2007
Edinbugh, Scotland
Prion 2006
October 4-6, 2006
Turin, Italy
Prion 2005
October 19-21, 2005
Düsseldorf, Germany
Prion 2004
May 24-28, 2004
Paris, France
An international Governing Board
- Neil CASHMAN, Canada
- Yury CHERNOFF, USA
- Bruce CHESEBRO, USA
- Emmanuel COMOY, France
- Jean-Philippe DESLYS, France
- Kevin KEOUGH, Canada
- Lucien VAN KEULEN, The Netherlands
- Giuseppe LEGNAME, Italy
- Jean MANSON, UK
- Hidehiro MIZUSAWA, USA
- Jesus REQUENA, Spain
- Detlev RIESNER, Germany
- Claudio SOTO, USA
- Fabrizio TAGLIAVINI, Italy
- Juan-Maria TORRES, Spain
- Robert WILL, UK